This book is the published doctoral dissertation from the University of Strasbourg, France, of Lowell Lindsay Bennion. Published in 1933, it is significant because it is the first book-length interpretation in the English language of Weber's...

Mary Holiday Black talks about her childhood as the oldest of six children to Teddy and Betty Holiday and being born somewhere along the Arizona and Utah border. She recalls watching her father, a Navajo medicine man perform ceremonies and other...

Anita Bradford talks about growing up in a suburb of Los Angeles, California, her experiences as a child dealing with the after math of the Depression, attending East Los Angeles Junior College at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and...

Carol Day describes how she first became aware of injustice, through a Japanese American friend whose father had been in the Topaz Relocation Camp during World War II. Then, through colleagues in the Presbyterian Church she became aware of and...

Willa Nita Brooks Derrick is the daughter of William and Juanita Brooks. In this interview she describes what it was like to grow up in their blended family, with their mother teaching school, writing and researching, and serving family, church...

Jeff Fox describes the many peace and justice activities he has been involved in over the years, from student activism and politics in 1968, anti-war protests, and community services activities. His focus now is on community services, justice in...

Julia French describes how she comes from a long line of educators, and environmental and social activists in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She herself became involved with Utahns Against Hunger with their Share the Harvest projects after moving to Salt...

Issac Giron describes himself as Chicano militant. He grew up in East Los Angeles in poor neighborhoods. His family moved to Salt Lake City to try to avoid the gangs and crime of Los Angeles, but Isaac found the same conditions existed in Salt...

James Green describes what it was like to be black in Utah in the 1940's and 1950's, as he was growing up. Most restaurants, movie theaters, bowling alleys--even Lagoon--were segregated and wouldn't allow blacks. Green remembers picketing the...